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What's ReachOut?

ReachOut is Australia's leading online mental health and organisation for young people, parents and educators in schools. We offer practical support, tools and tips to help young people get through anything from everyday issues to tough times. Plus, ReachOut Parents makes it easier for parents to help their teenagers, too. Everything we create is based on the latest evidence and designed with experts and young people. That’s what makes our digital self-help tools trusted, relevant and easy to use.

Available for free anytime and pretty much anywhere, ReachOut is accessed by 132,000 people in Australia every month. That’s more than 1.58 million each year.

Who's behind ReachOut?

ReachOut was started in 1998 from the groundbreaking idea to use the internet to make digital self-help available for young people (more on our story here). One in four young people goes through a mental health difficulty, and we believe technology has the potential to deliver a service that can meet unlimited demand, so that’s why we created ReachOut.
ReachOut is a registered not-for-profit based in Sydney but our services are accessed all over Australia. We employ around 40 great people who work across service delivery, research, digital, marketing and organisation support.

ReachOut is funded by the Australian Federal Department of Health as well as corporate, community and philanthropic donations. We also partner with heaps of other organisations to make sure every person who visits ReachOut finds the help they are looking for.

How you can get involved

Become a ReachOut School

Sign up to the ReachOut Schools community and extend the reach and impact of your school’s wellbeing and mental health programs via comprehensive, unique, free online resources for staff, students and parents.